As far as the OSI clinics are concerned, one of the beauties of having a partnership with provincial institutions is the connections the staff of the clinics have with the provincial health systems and the community services. So I would say one of the mandates of the OSI clinics is what we call outreach—outreach for two purposes. The first one is to get the health provider community, the social support services community, to know about OSI, OSI clinics, and the services that are offered. Also, it's a way for the OSI clinics to build relationships with the community providers so they can work in partnership. Given the fact that most of our veterans in our OSI clinics have general practitioners, how can we support them in their treatment approach? How can we provide training or education to the community providers? The clinics offer sessions regularly at different venues to family members, clinicians, and hospitals. We do have a lot of efforts from the OSI clinics to reach them.
On May 15th, 2012. See this statement in context.